Robert Hromec
Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
www.hromec.com
www.hromec.com
Robert Hromec
Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
www.hromec.com
www.hromec.com
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
He was born in 1970 and graduated in Painting from Hunter College, New York (1998) and in Printmaking from City College of New York (1995). He studied fine arts at the Pratt Institute (1990-1991). He was awarded a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and in 2002, he received a BA in Art from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. In New York, he experimented with various techniques until he reached his own language, which he calls "printpainting." His award-winning work has been shown in over seventy exhibitions in the United States, Canada and Europe. In the summer of 1997, one of his paintings was included in a group exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He lives and works in Bratislava.
ARTWORK IN CONTEST
Rebirth IV, 2023
PAINTING - Mixed media on aluminium
100 x 100 x 5 cm
In the work Rebirth IV by Robert Hromec visionary and delicate is the layering of planes, now transparent and chrome-plated, with symbolically allusive inserts, in which aluminium takes on the dual sense of a source of light and of internal reflections that give the material depth and space.